Japan Democratic Party

The Japan Democratic Party was a centrist political party in Japan that was active from 1947 to 1950. The party was founded by merging Inukai Takeru's progressive party with Hitoshi Ashida's faction of the Liberal Party of Japan, and party leader Ashida served as Prime Minister for seven months in 1948. In 1948, part of the Democratic Party's members joined the reincarnated Liberal Party, and the remainder joined the National Democratic Party of Japan in 1950.